Essential Information

Name:Zhi-Fang Xu

Position: Associate Professor

Highest Degree:PhD in Physics, Tsinghua University

Telephone(office):+86-755-8801 8238

Office:Room 127, Faculty Research Building 2

Email:xuzf@sustc.edu.cn

Research Field:Ultracold atoms, Topological quantum matter


Educational Background


2004-2009 Ph.D. in Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

2000-2004 B.S. in Physics, Department of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University


Working Experience


2017-Now: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology

2015-2017: Professor, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2013-2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

2011-2013: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo

2009-2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University



Honors and Awards

2011 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers


Papers and Patents


Selected Publications

[1] Zhi-Fang Xu, Andreas Hemmerich, and W. Vincent Liu, Odd-parity topological superfluidity for fermions in a bond-centered square optical lattice, Phys. Rev. A 96, 053607 (2017).

[2] Zhi-Fang Xu, Li You, Andreas Hemmerich, and W. Vincent Liu, π-flux Dirac bosons and topological Bogoliubov edge excitations in a bosonic chiral p-wave superfluid, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 085301 (2016).

[3]    Jinlong Yu, Zhi-Fang Xu*, Rong Lu, and Li You, Dynamical generation of topological magnetic lattices for ultracold atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143003 (2016).

[4]    Xiaoke Li, Bing Zhu, Xiaodong He, Fudong Wang, Mingyang Guo, Zhi-Fang Xu, Shizhong Zhang, and Dajun Wang, Coherent heteronuclear spin dynamics in an ultracold spinor mixture, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 255301 (2015).

[5] Zhi-Fang Xu, Xiaopeng Li, Peter Zoller, and W. Vincent Liu, Spontaneous quantum Hall effect in an atomic spinor Bose-Fermi mixture, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 125303 (2015).

[6] Zhi-Fang Xu, Li You, and Masahito Ueda, Atomic spin-orbit coupling synthesized with magnetic-field-gradient pulses, Phys. Rev. A 87, 063634 (2013).

[7] Z. F. Xu, Y. Kawaguchi, L. You, and M. Ueda, Symmetry classification of spin-orbit coupled spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, Phys. Rev. A 86, 033628 (2012).

[8] Z. F. Xu and L. You, Dynamical generation of arbitrary spin-orbit couplings for neutral atoms, Phys. Rev. A 85, 043605 (2012).

[9]    Y. C. Liu, Z. F. Xu, G. R. Jin, and L. You, Spin Squeezing: Transforming One-Axis Twisting into Two-Axis Twisting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 013601 (2011).

[10] Z. F. Xu, R. Lü, and L. You, Emergent patterns in a spin-orbit-coupled spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. A 83, 053602 (2011).